Tag: Preppers

Cuckservatives have an amazing ability to tell themselves pretty white lies. The conservative movement has long claimed to favor the rule of law, while simultaneously claiming to be against regulations. Which is it? A regulation is simply a rule—in other words a law for all practical purposes. In the case of many regulations the congress simply empowers an agency to create all the regulatory details of a law.

A specific example may serve to illustrate the point. A few years ago, my wife, a dedicated Glen Beck listener, informed me with horror that the EPA was creating new regulations which would outlaw all wood burning stoves. Whether this is a bad thing or not is beside the point—I like clean air as much as the next guy. She and Glen were more or less correct. The EPA enacted new regulations in 2015. These will be phased in over a five-year period and will dramatically reduce the amount of particulate (smoke) that a wood stove may legally emit. These new rules probably will force a few companies to close their doors for good.

Consider the situation from the point of view of a small wood stove manufacturer. Perhaps you do not like the new rules. Whom should you approach with your concerns? The EPA is not going to be very receptive. You may choose to call or write your congressman, but congress no longer control the little details of law. Your congressman is not going to be able to take regulatory power from the EPA once it is granted. Perhaps you contact the media and try to raise awareness of your plight. Well done sir! You are petitioning the King. As Mencious Moldbug pointed out, you could always petition the King even before all this freedumb and democracy stuff started.

When conservatives say they want to end regulations, but they want the rule of law they sound silly. What conservatives should state is that they want rule of law that is accountable. For law to be accountable some hierarchy must exist. The present system in the USA is rule of think tanks, universities, bureaucracies, and media. This system is not very hierarchical or accountable. Conservatives are complaining about rule by Moldbug’s cathedral, but they do not recognize the nature of their complaint.

Conservative always lose because freedumb is their highest value. A society governed by whomever is most successful at manipulating the masses is not likely to be a society governed by rational analysis of the problems. I the case of wood stoves it might seem reasonable to ban them outright in Los Angeles, while permitting use in rural Montana. This solution is not possible in a system where demotism means that a crisis must always be created, and then a blanket solution applied to fix it.